Building difficulties under OSX

[Nigel Spon]

Hello,

I seem to be building RTEMS 4.8 for PowerPC successfully under Mac  
OSX, but I'm a bit perplexed by the the configure/make process, which  
doesn't seem to be producing anything usable, or any errors. I suspect  
I have done something wrong, but I can't figure out what. I have a  
working toolchain, I'm following the "Getting Started" manual, and I'm  
issuing the commands:

mkdir build-rtems
cd build-rtems
./rtems-4.8.0/configure --prefix=/tmp/trial --enable-cxx -- 
target=powerpc-rtems4.8 --disable-sim --enable-rtemsbsp=virtex
make all install

I get lots of activity, no apparent errors, and at the end of the  
process in /tmp/trial I find:

- a /bin directory containin a number of small tools
- a /make directory with some .cfg files and some templates

...which is a bit of a surprise. I was expecting a library file  
containing RTEMS for the virtex platform, or something, but I seem to  
have built something else altogether. The README.configure says  
"Installation is done under $(prefix)/rtems", which doesn't exist, so  
I guess something has gone wrong but I can't tell what.

I would be grateful for any comments or assistance...

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